Example sentences of "[modal v] give [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not own property , or hold office , we must give hostages for our good behaviour — we are prisoners and outcasts in our own town . |
| 2 | ‘ Yet today , if I must give reasons for the love-affair we all shared with Nigel , it is not difficult . |
| 3 | He must give lessons on the golf swing on the way round , encourage , cajole , crack jokes , tell tall golfing tales and generally be Mr Golf Personality . |
| 4 | The basic requirement is that within 21 days after setting down , notice is to be given in a form which varies according to which section applies to the statement sought to be admitted ; more often than not this will be s 2 , seeking the admissability of a statement otherwise than in a document , when the notice must give particulars of the time , place and circumstances , at or in which the statement was made , the person by whom , and the person to whom , it was made and the substance of the statement or , if material , the words used . |
| 5 | This does not conform to the rules of normalisation ( attributes must give facts about all the key ) . |
| 6 | A characteristic which he stresses , and which should give managers in the formal sector pause for thought , is its ‘ enormous flexibility ’ . |
| 7 | In his judgment , Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. considered some of the authorities on the requirement that a decision-making body should give reasons for its decision , including a decision of the High Court of Australia in Public Service Board of New South Wales v. Osmond ( 1986 ) 159 C.L.R. 656 . |
| 8 | A judge setting aside a default judgment should give reasons for so doing ( Lennard v International Institute for Medical Science ( 1985 ) The Times , 29 April , CA citing Eagil Trust Co Ltd v Pigott Brown [ 1985 ] 3 All ER 119 , CA . |
| 9 | Glennerster suggests that the centre should give incentives to the localities to encourage the healthy competitiveness for innovations . |
| 10 | He declined to give any official view on the situation except to say : ‘ Any Marxist must say it 's a good thing that nobody has been hurt and we should give thanks to the police . ’ |
| 11 | We should give thanks for their work and pray for them . |
| 12 | ‘ We mourn , weep and express a sense of loss for Stephen , ’ said Fr Burke who said the congregation should give thanks for Ft Lt McNally 's life . |
| 13 | You should give details of all disqualifications . |
| 14 | The course should give details on the various ethnic groups and , if any particular groups are disadvantaged with respect to others , this should be covered and the implications explained . |
| 15 | This may give values of r greater or less than n ( Diamond , 1965 , p. 1135 ) . |
| 16 | The order may give directions on : auditing , the revision of the directors ' report or any summary financial statement , steps to be taken to bring the order to the notice of persons likely to rely on the original accounts , and on such other matters as the court thinks fit . |
| 17 | This inevitably produces a certain amount of fan noise which may give problems with sound recording . |
| 18 | The definition of abstract data types as in Postgres [ 19 ] to represent the various aggregation possibilities may give problems with closure : the return of a multi-valued set produces an unnormalized relation . |
| 19 | The other symptoms that may give clues to the presence of gonococcal infection in the woman are mostly produced when complications , such as involvement of the fallopian tubes , have set in . |
| 20 | The nature of the retrograde messenger may give clues to the processes responsible for the sustained increase in transmitter release . |
| 21 | In the body of the text , it may also be revealed that the person is in some position which may give opportunities for taking advantage of children , such as a registered foster-parent , a holiday-camp entertainer , a landlord who placed ads offering single mothers a home at his seaside lodging-house , a coach-driver who took a party of thirty-four primary school children . |
| 22 | The courts will not take the incidence of future inflation into account in calculating the dependency , but if it is established that the deceased would have increased his income in the future for reasons other than inflation ( eg because he would have been promoted if he had remained in his job or because he would probably have attained higher and better paid skills or a better paid job if he had lived ) this might give grounds for increasing the multiplicand . |
| 23 | One of the world 's hot spots that might give clues for the future . |
| 24 | An answer to that question might give clues to the broader question of the function of sleep . |
| 25 | In the mid 1970s there already existed accelerators , both at CERN and at Fermilab in the US , that could give protons with energies up to 450 GeV . |
| 26 | He could talk horses , he could give instructions to a jockey but the confidential fireside chat was not his style . |
| 27 | I could give examples of how people have been pursued beyond the grave to pull back a few miserly pounds of poll tax payment . |
| 28 | In the midst of all this , Stirling calmly called a halt so that he could give orders for further targets . |
| 29 | In my application I had to give the names of two people who could give references about my work . |
| 30 | Schumm ( 1968 ) also demonstrated how knowledge gained from contemporary denudation rates could give clues about the rates in geological time and suggested that with the appearance of grasses in the Cainozoic , the relations between climate , vegetation , erosion and runoff became much as today except for the subsequent influence of man . |